Astonishing is that happy power
which some people possess which enables them at once to dispel
depression and even disease. A woman like Mrs. Carter comes into a
house where there is misery and darkness; where the sufferer is
possessed by demons; unnameable apprehensions, which thicken his
blood and make him cry for death, and they retreat precipitately, as
their brethren were fabled to retreat at the sign of the cross. No
man who is so blessed as to have a friend with that magnetic force in
him need disbelieve in much of what is recorded as miraculous.
Zachariah felt as if a draught of good wine had been poured down his
throat. But he instantly asked:
"How is my wife?"
"She is all right; but you mustn't bother about her. You must come
out at once. You mustn't go back to Manchester just yet--not as
they'd care much about you now; Nadin's got plenty of work to do, and
wouldn't concern himself about you--but you aren't well enough and
are better away. Now, look here--I'll tell you what I've been and
done. I've got a cousin living here in Liverpool, as good a soul as
ever lived. I goes to her and tells her you must stay there."
"But how can I? Just think of the trouble and expense.
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